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Police responded to reports of a shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival on Sunday evening, according to NBC Bay Area.
The annual festival was on its third and final day when reports of the shooting came in.
At least five people were hospitalized at the festival, a hospital spokeswoman says.
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center spokeswoman Joy Alexiou says the hospital has received two victims from the shooting and expects three more.
She had no information on their conditions.
Witnesses to the shooting Sunday at an annual food festival in Northern California described the confusion and panic at the scene, the Mercury News reported.
Evenny Reyes of Gilroy, 13, told the newspaper that she spent the day at the Gilroy Garlic Festival with her friends and relatives.
"We were just leaving and we saw a guy with a bandana wrapped around his leg because he got shot. And there were people on the ground, crying," Reyes said. "There was a little kid hurt on the ground. People were throwing tables and cutting fences to get out."
Reyes told the Mercury News that she didn't run at first because the gunshots sounded like fireworks.
"It started going for five minutes, maybe three. It was like the movies - everyone was crying, people were screaming."
Todd Jones, a sound engineer, told the newspaper that he was at the front of the festival's Vineyard stage when he heard what sounded like a firework.
"But then it started to increase, more rapidly, which sounded more like gunfire, and at that point people realized what was happening," Jones said.
The scene is still active, according to the Gilroy Police Department. Police advise anyone looking for a loved one to head to the reunification center at Gavilan College in parking lot B.
Anyone who witnessed the shooting is encouraged to call the witness line at 408-846-0583.
No other information was released.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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